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Pop is stagnant while they work on Cosmic. I’m one of the people who left because of that.

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No new version will be released until Cosmic is ready.

Edit: I don’t intend to badmouth S76 here. I love PopOS, it’s the distro that made me a Linux fulltimer. Cosmic looks great so far. However the last major release of PopOS was in early 2022.

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Mint has released 3 versions based on Ubuntu Jammy, though.

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I guess it depends how one defines “update” versus “version”. Again, please don’t take what I’m saying as criticism of what you guys are doing, because PopOS is great — I just happen to have a personality better suited to rolling-release distros. Pop is what I usually recommend to first-time Linux users though.

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Stagnant was probably the wrong choice of word. Perhaps “stable” (in the Debian sense) would be more apt, and that isn’t for everybody. I think you will see a HUGE influx once Cosmic launches.

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Well, there must still be a reason that people are going to other distros… I don’t think Pop has any inherent problems (unlike Manjaro for example) so perhaps the average user (counting myself in there) simply considers those under-the-hood changes less appealing than new GUI stuff, especially when the demographic is gamers. Things like Cosmic’s improved tiling and the built-in theming support will be a major attraction, I think.

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So it’s a computer that lets you remotely control another computer? Is the advantage over SSH or remote desktop etc that you can interact with stuff outside the OS, like in BIOS?

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I tried it years ago and it felt more like Quark to me (not a compliment) but should give it another chance. For the past several years I’ve been using Affinity Publisher in a Windows VM.

Edit: just tried it out a bit (ver. 1.5.8 because that’s what’s in the Arch repo) and it’s better than I remembered. Adobe-like shortcuts. I made a new document and created a few text styles.

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what if I wanted to laugh at a funny Linux meme, but see a whingefest with a screenshot of a terminal

cygnus,
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Joke’s on you, I have transcended using ls because I have my entire folder structure memorized.

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Legend has it that the Elders knew of a world outside Vim, a world that encompasses it and all other things. That arcana is now lost, and none can transcend our plane of existence. Vim is all we know.

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Me when I have to compile something myself: :(

Me when I install something from the AUR: yay

Edit: I don’t use Chaotic AUR though. I’m more lawful neutral.

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That’s awesome, congrats. It’s like a form of immortality, having something of yours in the Linux kernel.

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Some of us have to accommodate clients and don’t get to decide.

cygnus,
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Interesting, the Flatpak is laggy for me.

cygnus,
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It works perfectly there! Thanks for this — it confirms the issue is with the standalone app (and Flatpak).

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Whoa that website’s demo video is selectable text that plays like a video

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V-shell basically just gives you KDE-like options.

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I’m not sure if steam deck is counted under Arch

It must be, because there’s no way vanilla Arch is the most-used Linux distro, even among gamers.

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I think Unices would be correct, if it works like “appendix” etc…

Best distro for Lenovo Carbon X1

I have a Lenovo Carbon X1 that is a few years old (7th gen), and I am running Fedora 38.5 with GNOME 44.5. The issue is that the system does not sleep properly. If I close the lid, nothing suspends properly, so if it is not on a charger or shut down it will die within several hours in my bag. Are there any distros that handle...

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I have an X1 gen 9 and sleep-on-close worked just fine with Fedora for the time I used that distro (although it was KDE, not GNOME). Every other distro I tried worked as expected in that respect.

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Fedora is also Wayland only, which I wouldn’t recommend to a newbie with an old laptop.

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If you have a server or second computer on your network you can use Syncthing as a kind of cloud-drive-esque bacup.

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